Joshua’s Reviews > JavaScript: The Good Parts > Status Update

“JavaScript doesn’t do this but we can fix that,” paraphrased ad nauseam. This book was written by someone who very much wants to constrain JavaScript to match the patterns of other languages. Very obviously, JavaScript is its own language. The author very clearly had a bad time with that.

Two interesting concepts have been made more prominent to me from the chapter on functions: modules and memoization. Perhaps this book is good for something after all.

Reading this out of sheer curiosity. After reading the Preface, I’ve determined that homeboy is incredibly pedantic and takes a narrow and very limiting view on the language. However, I’m of the frame of mind that there is something to be learned from everything, even if that thing is about how not to be. I shall see if there is anything further to be gained here.